Backend Engineer

Description Curious about what it’s like to work at Cognyte? At Cognyte, you'll collaborate with expert colleagues around the globe to solve problems most people will never even know exist. You'll be part of building unique solutions shaped by real investigative methodologies, enabling our customers to identify, investigate, visualize, and prevent criminal, terror, and security threats worldwide.

These solutions are used by law enforcement, national security, and military intelligence agencies in nearly 100 countries to turn massive volumes of data into clear, actionable intelligence for a safer world. At Cognyte, we create cutting-edge investigative analytics software that accelerates investigations and helps customers detect and respond to real security threats, cyber threats, financial crimes, and more.

We're looking for a Backend Developer to join our team in Florianópolis (SC) / Brazil. You'll build high-performance services that process real-time data in mission-critical environments.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance backend services in modern C++ on Linux
• Process high-throughput data streams with a focus on reliability and low latency
• Integrate services with databases, APIs, and distributed components
• Investigate complex production issues and optimize performance
• Ship and maintain applications in containerized environments (Docker / [Kubernetes])
• Improve our automation, testing, and engineering practices What you bring
• Professional experience with C++
• Solid experience developing on Linux
• Knowledge of multithreading, memory management, and performance tuning
• Familiarity with networking concepts (TCP/IP, sockets)
• Experience with databases and service integration
• Advanced English proficiency Nice to have
• Experience with telecom or network protocols ([e.g., SIP, RTP, ASN.1])
• CMake, CI/CD, and automated testing (unit and integration)
• Docker / Kubernetes
• Python for tooling and testing

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